Re: elephant burials

On Mon, 18 Mar 2024 09:47:06 +0000, b.schafer@ed.ac.uk (Burkhard)
wrote:

some time ago, Martin, I and a few others discussed burials,
and the way humans think about and relate to dead ancestors.
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One question in this context was if similar behaviour can
be found in other animals. Here's a short paper on a
recently discovered "elephant graveyard" - carefully argued
I'd say, without overegging the evidence
https://theconversation.com/elephant-calves-have-been-found-buried-what-does-that-mean-225409?
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and here the academic paper it's based on
https://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/article/view/8826

They have not overegged it in regard to the findings suggesting
*burial* but I see nothing to support a jump from that to *grieving*.